{"id":95812,"date":"2026-01-24T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95812\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:12:08","slug":"freezing-temperatures-impact-response-to-west-philadelphia-fire-leaving-fire-truck-coated-in-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95812\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing temperatures impact response to West Philadelphia fire, leaving fire truck coated in ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an icy scene in West Philadelphia as firefighters dealt with brutal freezing temperatures \u2014 and a burning building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/first_response_4\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cellphone video<\/a> obtained by CBS Philadelphia shows flames destroying a two-story storefront with apartments above it near South 52nd and Delancey Streets at around 3 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fire-pic-2.png#.png\" alt=\"fire-pic-2.png \" height=\"346\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Video shows flames rip through a two-story building in West Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>                First_Response_4<\/p>\n<p>While the fire burned, the feels-like temperature was near zero in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 130 firefighters and 51 pieces of equipment were on scene, according to the Philadelphia Fire Department. The brutal subfreezing conditions led to water pressure issues and a fire truck being completely covered in ice.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fire-pic.png#.png\" alt=\"fire-pic.png \" height=\"346\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Freezing conditions left a fire truck coated in ice while responding to the fire in West Philadelphia\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                First_Response_4<\/p>\n<p>Salt and sand trucks were brought in to help deal with the ice during the over three-hour long response.  <\/p>\n<p>Eventually, crews were able to get the fire under control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several organizations including the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and others responded to the scene as well.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an icy scene in West Philadelphia as firefighters dealt with brutal freezing temperatures \u2014 and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,69,1486,71,70,877],"class_list":["post-95812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fire","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-fire-department","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}